At 11:41 PM +0200 8/13/02, Jerome Quelin wrote:
>Well, I don't know if this is interesting, but here's a patch that implement:
>    op rand(out NUM)
>    op rand(out NUM, in INT)
>
>and does what you can guess. There's also a test file (I don't know wether
>the tests should go in an existant test file).
>
>But, there is a tiny, little problem: I don't call srand(), and thus get
>always the same value. I don't know *where* to call srand(). I don't even
>know *if* I should call srand().
>Anyway, here's the patch and be kind since this is my first patch ;) (pod
>cleaning doesn't count).

Theoretically you'd call it in the op setup function of the opcode library.

>Please, could you tell me if the parrot team (that is, all of you guys) wants
>to add new ops, or if we should wait for a new source organization /
>extension API / etc.

We need to get it defined. It's high on the list o' stuff to do.
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                                         Dan

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